Explore "Madame Tellier's Establishment" by Guy De Maupassant on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
They used to go there every evening at about eleven o'clock, just as they went to the café. Six or eight of them used to meet there; they were always the same set, not fast men, but respectable citizens, and young men of the town, and they used to drink their Chartreuse, and tease the girls, or else they would talk seriously with Madame, whom everybody respected, and then they used to go home before twelve o'clock. The younger men would sometimes stay the night.
It was a small, homely kind of house, painted yellow, at the corner of a street behind Saint Étienne's church, and from the windows one could see the docks, full of ships which were being unloaded, the great salt marsh, called "La Retenue," and behind, the old, gray chapel, dedicated to the Virgin, on the hill.